Looks like the battle of ideas is far from won

"[a] survey of 1,000 adults revealed that fewer than a third agreed with the Government's decision to axe 100,000 Civil Service jobs."

"Only one in four said services in areas such as tax and benefits were not affected by the loss of jobs, while fewer than a third believed that private firms could do a better job than the public sector". (My emphasis)

While the poll was conducted by a reputable organisation, I can find no detail as to the phrasing of the questions etc, and it was commissioned by the PCS, which is led by Mark Serwotka, an individual I have featured before.

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N - hi mate, hope all is well. EMO is apparently a music style previously known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" or a slang term to describe a wide range of fashion linked to EMO music. Teenagers - don't understand them & pointless trying to.

Adele writes: "Why are thousands of jobs being cut and workers being faced compulsory redundancies?". Because large swathes of the public sector are parasites?

They produce nothing. They create no wealth. They are baggage on the train of life. At least 100,000 should go, and I have said more than once that public workers should be disenfranchised. Their choice, "work" in the public sector and enjoy a public sector pension that is not available to the worker in the private sector, but you can't vote. Or get a normal job and be enfranchised.

Exactly my point, Croydonian! It should be a clear choice! The money and the pension, or the vote!

Of course they would jettison their franchise, meaning hundreds of thousands of passengers wouldn't have the right to decide when the train leaves the station. This would free any government to make decisions that were good for the country, not their party. All public sector workers are interested in is voting themselves a rise. This should be denied them.

Oh, dear, I just put Jacques Brel on and played Marieke (correct spelling) and I'm practically in tears. I just can't believe he is dead. You shouldn't play Marieke after two whiskies. I'm a nervous wreck. Oh, well, heigh-ho, I'll have a glass of Chilean white.

One of the themes of Cash Nexus the New Con bible ( or so it would appear from Con Home Book Choices ) is the growth of the tax enfranchised tax beneficiary as a class and how this has changed the conception of a democracy.Broadly it has morphed from an expression of "interest" to a sort of uneasy negotiation sat upon on shifting moral underpinning.

The bankruptcy of the whole thing is very clear is small housing developments where Leaseholders pay personally for the votes in consultation of the "majority" benefit collectors."What will they do next one said to me" Vote that I build them a swimming pool"

That is exactly what they do and in the housing surcharge context; a playground usually .

The position would have been improved sosmewhat by moving to housing associations but it has been fudged and in any case the "tenants " vote against it .

As an ongoing issue ,the amount of money borrowed by PFI`s nationally which does not appear as national debt (why?) is a new and scarey development .This debt is guaranteed by the public purse.Using your momney twice ? The last time I recall hearing this was at Lloyds about the time the Insitution collapsed